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New comment by meiuqer in "Peptides: where to begin?"

meiuqer — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:59:30 +0000

That does not seem like an environment we should use to determine if the rest of the world should take a substance lol

New comment by meiuqer in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

meiuqer — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 06:23:14 +0000

Thanks for the context! I hope HN will stay a place for knowledge sharing and deep conversations

New comment by meiuqer in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

meiuqer — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:23:03 +0000

I feel a little bit of irony in this post of a company/forum that is asking its users to not use AI while simultaneously trying to fund countless companies that are responsible for ruining the internet as we speak.

New comment by meiuqer in "How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week"

meiuqer — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:25:40 +0000

I know everyone loves to hate Angular but it is in a really good place at the moment. If you don't need SSR and just want to build an SPA, Angular is the way to go imho.

New comment by meiuqer in "Linux phones are more important now than ever"

meiuqer — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 08:21:48 +0000

I don't know if i agree that Belgians don't have a national identity. I just think that the Flemish nationalist parties push the Flemish nationality identity so hard that Flemish people more identify as Flemish then as Belgian.

However Walloon people definitely feel Belgian and have a Belgian pride.

Also, i don't know if a nation state is defined by having a national identity?

New comment by meiuqer in "Linux phones are more important now than ever"

meiuqer — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:22:40 +0000

What do you mean by 'Belgium is not a nation state', if i may ask?

New comment by meiuqer in "Garmin beats Apple to market with satellite-connected smartwatch"

meiuqer — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 09:27:16 +0000

Yes, and as i mentioned, generally speaking that will not kill you if you wont go too fast. Like with an omafiets, you don't go that fast.

I mean, we can go back and forth here all you want. You can look up the data yourself or visit the Netherlands and look around ...

New comment by meiuqer in "Garmin beats Apple to market with satellite-connected smartwatch"

meiuqer — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 13:36:42 +0000

Isolated cyclepaths is the answer. This will (mostly) prevent cyclists to be hit by cars and smashing their heads on curbs.

New comment by meiuqer in "Garmin beats Apple to market with satellite-connected smartwatch"

meiuqer — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 07:48:42 +0000

On a typical dutch 'omafiets' you ride on average 15km/h. these are bikes that are used for every day trafic.

bikepacking is a completely different way of cycling and has nothing to do with the way people in the netherlands use their bikes.

New comment by meiuqer in "Garmin beats Apple to market with satellite-connected smartwatch"

meiuqer — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 07:47:06 +0000

those are speedpedelecs and i agree, you are insane if you don't wear a bike on that.

e-bikes are usually 25km/h max in my countries (Benelux)

New comment by meiuqer in "Garmin beats Apple to market with satellite-connected smartwatch"

meiuqer — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 07:45:58 +0000

As i said, in general, going 15km/h is not fast enough to have a serious fall on your own. Only from external factors can riding a bike be dangerous, like from a car for example. in The Netherlands almost all cycle paths are isolated from cars as much as possible. So in general (again, in general) it is safe enough to drive around without a helmet.

The data backs it up. Look at the deaths per capita in the Netherlands. You can see a steep rise with the introduction of e-bikes, but before that it was one of the lowest in the world. And that is saying something when it is the most cycling dense country of the world.

New comment by meiuqer in "Garmin beats Apple to market with satellite-connected smartwatch"

meiuqer — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 07:44:29 +0000

This only began to become a problem with the introduction of e-bikes. Old people especially are not wearing them on e-bikes. On regular bikes where you are going 15km/h you should not have to wear a helmet. The infrastructure in the Netherlands protects cyclists enough (in general) and a fall at that speed is not really that dangerous (in general, again).

Though an e-bike goes 25km/h. This is a lot more dangerous and people should definitely wear a helmet when driving one.

New comment by meiuqer in "Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?"

meiuqer — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 09:24:27 +0000

I know you're asking for advice and not looking for someone to hire here, but the company I work for does just what you are asking for: Creating custom made software for B2B companies.

Check us out at www.bizzomate.com

We are focused on low-code solutions but we try to understand the customers needs through service design. We also have our own business rule engine that might be useful to your case. We also have experience building mission critical ERP-systems.

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New comment by meiuqer in "Medieval"

meiuqer — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 07:01:46 +0000

Good shout, I was thinking of The color of Pomegranates:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Color_of_Pomegranates

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPtxS1c-fGA

New comment by meiuqer in "Canadian government banning Flipper Zero to combat auto theft"

meiuqer — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 08:27:53 +0000

What is RF?

New comment by meiuqer in "Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens"

meiuqer — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 11:58:56 +0000

I literally just came from Ikea for a new kitchen and asked for this feature on my stove haha. Luckily they said i could choose my own stove so i will think i will do that

New comment by meiuqer in "Tracking Covid-19 variant B.1.1.529"

meiuqer — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 14:42:55 +0000

It states that she returns to Belgium. Implying that it is a resident from Belgium I guess?